Janusz Kłosiński
Birthday: Born in 1920-10-19 in Łódź, Poland
Deathday: 2017-11-08
TV Credits
Janosik
Character: zbójnik Kuśmider
Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes....
Czterej pancerni i pies
Character: Czernousow
Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, ...
Theatre Macabre
Character:
Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors....
Niewiarygodne przygody Marka Piegusa
Character: Wieńczysław Nieszczególny
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Dom
Character: Skoczylas, chłop przechowujący mercedesa
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Dom
Character: wachmistrz Antoni Kłos, były podkomendny Bizanca
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Droga
Character: kolejarz Czerniak
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Życie na gorąco
Character: major Nikojaldis, wuj Vessi, członek greckiej junty wojskowej
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Kapitan Sowa na tropie
Character: dyrektor cyrku
Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II....
Dyrektorzy
Character: Leszczuk, dyrektor naczelny zjednoczenia
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Kapitan Sowa na tropie
Character: Dyrektor cyrku
Kapitan Sowa na tropie is a Polish series from 1965 directed by Stanisław Bareja. It was the first Polish criminal series made after World War II....
Doktor Ewa
Character: Sawiński, kierownik wydziału zdrowia
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Podziemny front
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Movie Credits
Kryptonim Nektar
Character: Fagas' Partner
A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market....
Late Afternoon
Character: Photographer
Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter....
Legenda
Character: Sołtys "Sęk"
Three children strike a deep friendship after a chance encounter during World War 2....
The Knave of Spades
Character: Policeman
A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals....
The Neighbours
Character: Piotr's Father
A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager....
Journey for One Smile
Character: Cop
The film is a cinema version of the popular TV series of the same title....
Król Maciuś I
Character: King Evil's soldier (uncredited)
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results...
Identification Marks: None
Character: Resistance member picking up bottles (voice) (uncredited)
The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series of open-ended encounters with women following a wake-up argument with his pouting wife, and a long-delayed military physical (the film’s title derives from one of the questions). Skolimowski hoarded four years’ worth of the annual film footage allotme...
Kalosze szczęścia
Character: Józek "Dobroduszny"
Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations....
Na własną prośbę
Character: Boroń
The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management....
Wraki
Character: Ship Captain
Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa....
The Codes
Character: Bookstore Manager
An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself....
Milioner
Character: kierownik cementowni
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A Lady from the Window
Character: Korycka's Representative
Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families....
Bezkresne łąki
Character: leśniczy Oleś
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Epizod Berlin West
Character: Theatre director
The 1980s. Jan Bard, Polish intellectual and writer, leaves for West Berlin. He is working on another novel here. In Germany, he meets his old love Iza. He revives the feeling that once connected them. The woman is the ex-wife of the publisher of Bard's novels. The situation gets complicated soon....
A Story in Red
Character: Grzybowski
Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village...
Story of the Golden Boot
Character: Host (voice) (uncredited)
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow....
The Two Who Stole the Moon
Character: Viceroy Mortadella
Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishin...
Soldier of Victory
Character: Gendarme in 1905 (uncredited)
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs....
Her Portrait
Character: Danka's father
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Walkover
Character: Man with a Goat
Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde....
Filip z konopi
Character: pan Władzio, dozorca
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Innocent Sorcerers
Character: Sport Activist (voice) (uncredited)
A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes out to see some friends and then rushes madly around the city after her....
Janosik
Character: Zbójnik Kuśmider
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Obok prawdy
Character: Chief Engineer
After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma....
The Catastrophe
Character: Nowak
A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses....
Pastorale heroica
Character: Wojtasik
War film directed by Henryk Bielski....
Chrześniak
Character: księgowy Kuś
The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead....
Album polski
Character: Former Camp Prisoner (uncredited)
University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents....
Hotel klasy lux
Character: Sobol's Father
The five participants in the meeting for the construction of a luxury hotel meet years later at its opening....
The Big, Bigger, and the Biggest
Character: Eustachy Kużewik
A young boy and girl travel in a strange car and encounter various objects which come alive to help them. Eventually they leave the Earth altogether and visit a strange, new planet....
Identification Marks None
Character: Zbigniew Norowski
Drama about Feliks Dzerzhinsky's life...
Domek z kart
Character: Soviet Soldier (uncredited)
August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities....
Warszawskie gołębie
Character:
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Bloody Shadows
Character:
Ewelina Janiszewska Smolianka Stolnikowna Smolenska & Willhelm 2ed The Hunter, Malga Kubiak great grandmother 1862-1886....
The Voice from Beyond
Character: Jaś (uncredited)
A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authorities begin showing in these quacks....
Meetings In The Dark
Character: German watching the Poles at the Bar (uncredited)
A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war....
The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń
Character: Major Żubryd
The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists....
Loneliness of the Couple
Character: Kadulok
A psychological drama film based on a story by Karol Ludwik Koniński....
Rodzina Milcarków
Character: (uncredited)
The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising....
Silence
Character: Butcher
Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment....
Zamach stanu
Character: adwokat S. Szurlej, obrońca w procesie brzeskim
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Weekendy
Character: Bookkeeper
An intimate psychological drama consisting of two separate stories, the heroes of which represent the attitudes of young people, which were rarely manifested in the early 1960s....
Pięciu
Character: Tomala
Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners. Confrontation of attitudes in the face of danger during a disaster at a mine....
Hell and Heaven
Character: General (uncredited)
A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos....
Zejście do piekła
Character: (voice) (uncredited)
Etnographers travelling through the Amazon jungle find an enclosed colony ran by former Nazi Germany officials....
Only the Dead Can Answer
Character: Marczuk / Malik
Police captain Wójcik conducts an investigation into the murder of a cashier from a state-owned enterprise. Despite seemingly numerous leads, the investigation gets stuck in a dead end – the victim had no enemies and nothing was stolen. Despite closing the case Wójcik feels that the key to solving the mystery is the murdered cashier and his past. Exploring this plot, he discovers a full-fledged spy affair, however, trying to catch the real murderer, he’ll have to risk his life, health and career...
Pavoncello
Character: Cinema Manager
In 1912, Szczebieniew, a rich and ailing old man, comes to Italy with his young wife, Zinaida. Bored with his company, she looks for amusement and casual affairs....
How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
Character: Matula (voice) (uncredited)
Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis....
The Red and the Gold
Character: Mizgalski
An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War....
How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
Character: Tavern Keeper (uncredited)
On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe....
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part One
Character: Czernousow ("The Crew")
The first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2....
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Three
Character: Czernousow ("The Bridge")
The third of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, including episodes 5 and 6....
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Two
Character: Czernousow ("The Border Is Where We Are")
The second of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 3 and 4....
Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four
Character: Czernuosow
The last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 7 and 8....
Martwa fala
Character: Józef Wójcik
After graduating from maritime school, Marek goes on his first voyage....
All Will Be Well
Character: Priest
A teenage boy, whose mother is terminally ill, and his alcohol-addicted sports teacher set out on a pilgrimage to Czestochowa....
Nos
Character: Doctor
An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted....
I'm a Butterfly
Character: Dyrektor Wincenty Wardowski
Funny adventures of Engineer Stefan Karwowski. One day he meet the famous star Irena Orska and fall in love. But there are three problems: his wife and two children. He must choice what is more importent for him - family or Irena....
Birth Certificate
Character: Shop Owner
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in...
Przeklęte oko proroka
Character: Kalicki
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Cooked Doves
Character: Ludwik Biskup
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers....
Niespotykanie spokojny człowiek
Character: Stanisław Włodek
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Kochajmy syrenki
Character: Jan Koszajtis
Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups....
My Second Marriage
Character: Izydor
After the death of his wife, Marcin stays alone with his growing son on the farm....
The Devil from Seventh Grade
Character: Żegota
Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his rivals are very dangerous....
Wolves' Echoes
Character: Man in Derenica
A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East....
Południk zero
Character: Szczygieł
Shortly after World War 2 a militiaman with the help of two Union of Young Struggle members wages war on a local gang terrorising a small Masurian town....
Back to Life Again
Character: Burek
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated....
Signs on the Road
Character: Franciszek Waśko
A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace....
Zwariowana noc
Character: German Gendarme
Three Polish resistance fighters hide in an old castle inhabitated by an old baroness and her relatives....
Wystrzał
Character: Kuźma
Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge....
Operation "Brutus"
Character: Sadowski, Party Secretary
Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect that one of his men was planted by the insurgents. Another Security Office agent arrives to uncover the conspiracy and deal the final blow to Boruta....
The Doll
Character: Prince's Attorney
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection....
Na całość
Character: kierownik sklepu
Two young men from the margins of society start a spiral of crime that gets out of control....
Morning Stars
Character:
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Sny i marzenia
Character: Jan Karolak
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Śpiewy po rosie
Character: stary Pilichowski
Film directed by Wladyslaw Slesicki....
Trzy starty
Character: Balcerzak
Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship....
Ostatnie dni
Character: Cook Wasiak
As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters....
Victory
Character: kucharz Wasiak
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Take It Easy
Character: Ważny myśliwy
The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacl...
Cellulose
Character: Party Member
Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland....
Governor
Character: Dr. Frogg
Mad scientist Professor Frogg invites an unsuspecting friend into his futuristic mansion. He begins to tell him about plans to control Earth with the help of invaders from another planet....
Place on Earth
Character: Inn Manager
A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law....
Leprosy
Character: Józek
When Stanisław Czermień is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real criminal....
Ferry
Character: Walczak
1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines....
Merry Christmas
Character: stajenny "Wibracyjny"
Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends....
The Saragossa Manuscript
Character: Don Diego Salero
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather....
Eagle
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board....
The Barrel Organ
Character: Manager
This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus....
Zabijcie czarną owcę
Character: Tyfuśnik
Young man struggles with being rejected by society....
Passion
Character:
The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians....